Founded in 1998, the aim of Shiji is to become a "big data" application service platform operator. Shiji has become one of the leading manufacturers of hotel information systems, with a variety of recent investments into the European market. Shiji is gradually expanding from hotel to catering and retail industries, becoming the major software supplier to both industries. Shiji has also introduced consulting, IT solutions and data platform services. Meanwhile, Shiji is developing worldwide leading products and technologies aiming for the international market and speeding up its globalization progress. Currently Shiji has more than 50 subsidiaries with about 3,000 employees.

For our SnapShot team in Berlin we’re looking for an experienced Product Program Manager (m/f).

SnapShot is the first and largest hospitality independent data processing platform, helping both enterprise and individual hospitality organizations collect, harmonize and analyse data to better manage their businesses. As one of the largest hospitality data processors in the world, our data platform manages transactional data of over 6,000 independent and branded hotels worldwide with over 45 different connected PMS systems and growing.

Applying your in-depth knowledge of data science principles and working closely with our agile Product team, you will lead and support end-to-end cycle of data analytics projects to leverage data driven decision making.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Responsible for the overall assigned product delivery
• Define product briefs, MVPs and plan release scope in line with company short, mid and long-term objectives
• Support various data activities, including data extraction, cleansing, modelling and analysis for Productization consideration
• Conduct market research and competitor analysis
• Conduct interviews with potential and existing customers to validate product and persona hypotheses
• Coordinate with other Group Companies, POs, Marketing, Customer Support and Commercial Team
• Prepare and continuously manage product backlog
• Prepare user stories and actively participate in the technical grooming sessions with the Development and QA teams
• Understand potential product shortcomings, design suitable solutions, validate and implement those
• Close collaboration with product designers and preparation of product mockups

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Previous experience as product owner, product manager or business analyst
• Technical knowledge with preference of broad understanding of the landscape of machine learning and related data science disciplines, knowledge of a common BI tools, relational databases
• Experience with software as a service (SaaS) model
• Strong communication skills
• Strong English skills, min. C1 level, both spoken and written form
• Ability to explain business requirements to developers
• Ability to work in geographically distributed teams
• Experience with working in agile environment
• EU working permission
• Travel Industry or data science as a service experience preferred
• Knowledge of integration principles between different systems (e.g. REST/JSON)
• Experience with working in agile environment

WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM US 

• An exciting job within a creative start-up environment with a great deal of freedom and responsibility and the opportunity to help shape the company's future
• Friendly, motivated and talented multicultural team with a global presence
• Generous compensation package
• An individual workplace, of course as much coffee, mate and fruit as you need to get into the flow
• Regular company breakfasts and special deals with local fitness companies

INTERESTED?

Looking forward to your application under specification of your possible starting date and salary expectations.